“A new report by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, using new data from real-time business tracker Growth Intelligence, draws a map of jobs and growth across the whole of the UK. The detailed report, commissioned by Google, also reveals just how far traditional sectors, such as manufacturing, architecture and engineering, have embraced… Continue Reading
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Federal Bank of St. Louis posts digitized archival records from Federal Reserve’s records held at National Archives
Via Katrina Stierholz, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: “…we have digitized archival records from the Federal Reserve’s records held at the National Archives. The Federal Reserve’s records are known as Record Group 82, and we have digitized and posted materials from the Reserve Bank Organization Committee (http://bit.ly/18dCmTo ), which selected the Reserve Bank cities… Continue Reading
Cory Doctorow: privacy, oversharing and government surveillance
Cory Doctorow: “The European Parliament is currently involved in a wrangle over the new General Data Protection Regulation. At stake are the future rules for online privacy, data mining, big data, governmental spying (by proxy), to name a few. Hundreds of amendments and proposals are on the table, including some that speak of relaxing the… Continue Reading
It is Not Just Confusion! Strategic Uncertainty in an Experimental Asset Market
Akiyama, Eizo, Hanaki, Nobuyuki and Ishikawa, Ryuichiro, It is Not Just Confusion! Strategic Uncertainty in an Experimental Asset Market (August 8, 2013). Available at SSRN. “To what extent is the observed mis-pricing in experimental asset markets caused by strategic uncertainty (SU) and by individual bounded rationality (IBR)? We address this question by comparing subjects’ initial… Continue Reading
SST, Inc. Launches National Gunfire Index
“SST, Inc., today announced the launch of its National Gunfire Index which offers the most detailed record available of illegal gunfire activity, including non-homicide firearm violence, in major cities across the United States. This previously unattainable data on gunfire activity provides a more comprehensive data set than has ever been available on the true volume,… Continue Reading
Commentary – Math Advances Raise the Prospect of an Internet Security Crisis
Academic advances suggest that the encryption systems that secure online communications could be undermined in just a few years, by Tom Simonite on August 2, 2013. Technology Review.”Cryptographic schemes protect vast quantities of financial and personal information. The encryption systems used to secure online bank accounts and keep critical communications private could be undone in… Continue Reading
The Macroeconomic Dependence of Industry Equilibrium
Creditor Recovery: The Macroeconomic Dependence of Industry Equilibrium, Nada Mora, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, June 2013. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Working Paper No. 13-06 “This paper reconciles industry conditions with the state of the economy in driving asset liquidation values and, therefore, recovery rates on defaulted debt securities. Macro-economic effects matter… Continue Reading
DOJ/Obama Administration White Paper on Bulk Collection of Metadata Telephony
WSJ – Obama Proposes Surveillance-Policy Overhaul – President Plans Changes to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Transcript of President Obama’s press conference on surveillance, August 9, 2013 Background on the President’s Statement on Reforms to NSA Programs, August 9 2013 Huffington Post – Obama Proposes FISA Reforms Amid Growing Concerns Over NSA Surveillance DOJ/Obama Administration White Paper on… Continue Reading
Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Children Aged 3‒19 Years
Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Children Aged 3‒19 Years With and Without Asthma in the United States, 1999‒2010 – Number 126, August 2013 Key findings – Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999‒2010 “From 1999 to 2010, the percentage of children without asthma exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) decreased from 57.3%… Continue Reading
Guardian – NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens’ emails and phone calls
Spy agency has secret backdoor permission to search databases for individual Americans’ communications – “The National Security Agency has a secret backdoor into its vast databases under a legal authority enabling it to search for US citizens’email and phone calls without a warrant, according to a top-secret document passed to the Guardian by Edward Snowden. The previously… Continue Reading
TRAC – New Information on FISA Judges
“Central to the growing dispute about the legality and value of the very extensive electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) is the secret federal court that approves the search warrants authorizing the NSA’s world-wide efforts. While the operations of both the NSA and the decisions of what is now incorrectly called the Federal… Continue Reading
NY Fed Commentary – Historical Use of Graphics
Historical Echoes: Off the Charts! by Kathleen McKiernan “The visual representation of information, knowledge, or data has been around since the time of the caveman. But it wasn’t until 1786, when William Playfair, a Scottish engineer, published The Commercial and Political Atlas, illustrating for the first time how economic data could be represented by charts.… Continue Reading
